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Yale Now Has as Many Administrators as Students(dailycaller.com)
2 points by ufhghfggf 5y ago|0 comments
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
Heard that modern truck engine compartments are getting so cramped you gotta lift the cab to even change all the spark plugs. This way dealers can charge $500-$800 for a plug change. (And diesels, which don't have plugs, have even more
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
Tesla's opposition to Right to Repair has chilled the brand to many frugal car buyers who drive their daily beater 20+ years and 300,000+ miles. Being able to buy an affordable electric crate motor will open up the world of electric to
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Ford's $3900 electric crate motor and F-100 concept(cnbc.com)
232 points by ufhghfggf 5y ago|343 comments
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
Curiously it still "predicted" the early 2020 COVID recession gray bar, but it of course could not have predicted it before Wuhan's patient zero, so I guess it has a way of being sometimes lucky. (Or, if the chart truly is to
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
For every 100 men that would volunteer to endure enemy fire, how many of those 100 would volunteer to have the young girl in the video discipline them for their lack of microagression awareness? How many of those 100 will assume she will be
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
> obvious that men and women are targeted differently But men see the ads targeted at women. "We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us." If the rough men the USA needs
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
Historically the gold standard for predicting recession, more accurate than any other indicator, is "10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Minus 2-Year Treasury Constant Maturity (T10Y2Y)": https://fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
Five minute video compares military recruitment ads for (1.) China, (2.) Russia, (3.) USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfe6d6MzeLM Summary: Chinese and Russian ads focus on discplined men training themselves for war. Th
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
Engelbart's chording system wasn't faster than QWERTY, but chording systems of the stenographic sort are the fastest way to get fingers accurately typing words, allowing over 200-300WPM for mortals. A major source of error with QW
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
Drug lord Pablo Escobar once burned $2 million cash to keep his family warm while they were hiding in a cave. It is also said he lost 1 billion cash per year due to rats eating the bills and/or dampness spoiling them. References: http
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
It's like that old joke about King Solomon's 700 wives and 300 concubines: "He tells me I'm one in a thousand!"
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
Are Facebook and Instagram unusable on mobile Safari, which bypasses the App Store? (I haven't used FB/Insta for years, so I'm not asking a rhetorical question here: I really don't know and I'm genuinely curious.) I
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
Quality performance of K448: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIItKRaP2vc
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
How much of her $100M+ fortune has she donated to charity? Almost none that I can see. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have committed to giving nearly all their billions to charity but Paul and Nancy Pelosi are using their $100M+ to establish
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
This will do nothing. CA has a low median property tax rate[1] of 0.74%, which allows rich elites and foreign speculators to buy empty lots of land and let them sit unused for decades while waiting for them to go up in value. This low prope
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
A "rectangular wheel" has a safety edge case that circular wheels don't: if the rectangular wheel is lowered too close to the driver's thighs, the bottom corners of the rectangle will collide with the driver's thigh
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
Edited to add a winky face after reading up on Poe's law [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law ].
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by ufhghfggf 5y ago
Because we think intelligent alien life has nothing better to do than destroy the natural beauty of star systems in order to power their crypto-coin mining rigs and video game cards. ;-)